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Costa Rica's
Arenal
National Park
has the most
active volcano
in the country.
It was believed
to be dormant
until a major
eruption in
1 968. The park
is next to the
country's
largest
hydroelectric
project, the
Arenal Lake
Dam.

PALO VERDE NATIONAL PARK

The Palo Verde National Park of Costa Rica protects
forested areas as well as an extensive marshland
between the Tempisque and Bebedero rivers of
Guanacaste. Palo Verde National Park is a diverse
patchwork of habitats located in the heart of the
Tempisque basin near the mouth of the Rio
Tempisque River.

The area is comprised of both
deciduous and evergreen tropical dry
forest, brackish and fresh water
wetlands, mangrove swamps, and the
tidal estuarine ecosystem of the lower
Tempisque River. This area provides an
important wintering ground to migrant
North American waterfowl

The Ostional National
Wildlife Refuge is located
in the counties of Santa
Cruz and Nicoya in the
province of Guanacaste.
The Ostional National
Wildlife Refuge was
created to protect one of
the world's most important
nesting beaches of the
marine turtle Lepidochelys
olivacea (Olive Ridley) or
Lora as it is known locally.
The Ostional Wildlife
Refuge protects marine
turtle species, such as the
Olive Ridley (Lora) and
Leatherback (Baula) at
Playa Ostional on the
Nicoya Peninsula Costa
Rica. Arribadas at this
beach are considered the
largest in the world, with as
many as a million sea turtle
eggs laid in the beach

OSTIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

CORCOVADO NATIONAL PARK

Corcovado National Park
Costa Rica. The park protects
various threatened plant and
animal species, and is known
to have about 1 24 species of
mammals (over 50 bats); 375
species of birds (perhaps 5-8
endemics); 11 7 species of
reptiles and amphibians (2
crocodilians, 4 sea turtles); 66
freshwater fish species; and 70
species of marine crabs.
Among the mammals are 4
monkey species (e.g. Central
American squirrel monkey,
white-faced capuchin),
anteaters, sloths, southern
river otter, crab-eating raccoon,
5-6 cat species (e.g. ocelot,
margay, jaguar), peccaries and
Baird's tapir.